One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Friendship
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Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Happiness
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Wisdom
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
Wisdom
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Courage
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Wisdom
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Wisdom
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Wisdom
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Happiness
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Wisdom
If you wished to be loved, love.
Love
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Wisdom
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Life
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Wisdom
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
Wisdom
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Wisdom
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Wisdom
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Love
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Life
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Life
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Freedom
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Wisdom
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Wisdom
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Courage
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